Cathy Carter
Cathy Carter is the education reporter for WUSF 89.7 and StateImpact Florida.
Before joining WUSF, Cathy was the local host of NPR’s Morning Edition for Delaware Public Media and reported on a variety of topics from education to the arts.
Cathy also reported for WAMU, the NPR news station in Washington D.C, was a host at XM Satellite Radio and wrote arts and culture stories for a variety of newspaper,s including the Virginian Pilot and the Baltimore Sun.
Her work has been honored by journalism organizations such as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maryland Press Association and the Delaware Press Association.
As a Massachusetts native and a graduate of Boston’s Emerson College, Cathy - as are all citizens under state mandate - had no choice but to be born a Boston Red Sox fan.
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Across Florida, there are communities where artists seem to gravitate and Sarasota is one of those places. Now, years after his death, one of the city's...
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The new Republican tax law is prompting plenty of questions and many of them are coming from homeowners. -
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to wade in on the state’s controversial new education law . The case has now been transferred to the Leon... -
A new law allows any Florida resident to question what's being taught in the state's public schools. A handful of complaints have been filed in school... -
Each spring, third graders in Florida's public schools are required to take a reading exam , and a failing grade could result in a student being held... -
In a unanimous decision, the Pinellas County School Board has voted to join a potential lawsuit against the state. It now joins Polk, Orange, Miami-Dade... -
The Pinellas County School Board is expected to vote Tuesday on whether or not to join a legal challenge to a controversial new education law. -
A Florida State Senator wants to ask voters to impose term limits on members of county school boards. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota has filed a bill for the... -
The School Boards in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties have voted to authorize legal action to challenge a controversial new education bill. Tampa Bay...
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According to the Florida Department of Education, nearly eighty one percent of Florida teenagers earned a high school diploma last year. That makes the...
